Beech 1900 SIC

[jmreii]

That all sounds good. I just remember that one of the "limitations" that we had to remember was that if it was flown single pilot then the number of pax was limited to 9. And like I said its been a few years since I left Colgan so I don't remember whos rule that was...although the thought just came into my head that Beech said 9 pax and Colgan had a rule of zero pax, but that might be wrong. Anyways I was reading this and saw that the 9 pax thing had not been mentioned so I thought I'd throw it out there.

It has been years since I have flown passengers under 135, but I believe the rules went 9 passenger seats or less it was single pilot; 10 pasenger seats or more it was a pilot and co-pilot and something about an autopilot in lieu of. please do not quote my on this.

 

[MtrHedAP]

Thanks for the new replies. The company I am working for sent us new FO's to denver for an SIC type on the 1900. This consisted of a week of ground school 3 sim sessions as pilot flying and 3 as pilot monitoring. We also had a checkride with an FAA examiner. I know the checkride is not required they just wanted to make sure we applied ourselves. On my comm license it has 1900 type with "SIC privileges only". One of the guys did not pass the checkride and did not get the SIC type but was still able to hold his job and go to work. We all felt this was wrong because we were under the impression that we needed to have 1900 SIC to act as copilot overseas, or landing in another country. I have now learned it depends on the particular country. Our operations require 2 pilots. Just was trying to clear the air.

 

[great cornholio]

Thanks for the new replies. The company I am working for sent us new FO's to denver for an SIC type on the 1900. This consisted of a week of ground school 3 sim sessions as pilot flying and 3 as pilot monitoring. We also had a checkride with an FAA examiner. I know the checkride is not required they just wanted to make sure we applied ourselves. On my comm license it has 1900 type with "SIC privileges only". One of the guys did not pass the checkride and did not get the SIC type but was still able to hold his job and go to work. We all felt this was wrong because we were under the impression that we needed to have 1900 SIC to act as copilot overseas, or landing in another country. I have now learned it depends on the particular country. Our operations require 2 pilots. Just was trying to clear the air.

Congrats man. I had a blast in the 1900.

 

[JAFI]

Where did you get a 1900 SIC type rating?

 

[MtrHedAP]

It was a place called SATCO i think. Located in Centennial CO, near Denver. Not sure if they are still doing them I think they are big into manufacturing sims.

 

[JAFI]

Well it took some digging and some phone calls but, the short answer is there is an SIC Type rating for aircraft that only require one pilot IF the operation requires two pilots.

61.55 Second-in-command qualifications.
(a) A person may serve as a second-in-command of an aircraft type certificated for more than one required pilot flight crewmember or in operations requiring a second-in-command pilot flight crewmember only if that person holds:

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I could not find any guidance that talked about a Single Pilot Typed aircraft requiring a SIC but found in 61.55 requiring a SIC depending on kind of operation. To meet the ICAO requirements the SIC type rating can be required and thus pilot certified.

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JAFI